Underage Music Festival

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Underage Music Festival


Location(s)	Victoria Park, London
Years active	2007 - Unknown
Founded by
Date(s)	August 10 (1 day)
Genre(s)	Rock, Pop
Website	http://www.underagefestivals.com/

The first Underage Music Festival was held on August 10, 2007, in association with Artrocker and Converse. It was open to only 14-19 year olds, and took place in London, England. There were four stages, the Radio One stage, Converse in association with Artrocker Stage, the Myspace stage, and the Converse new music stage.

The Festival evolved out of a series of club nights held in the Elephant and Castle area of South London, hosted and organised by Sam Kilcoyne, the teenage son of Barry 7 from Add N to (X) after Kilcoyne was refused admission to a Buzcocks gig due to his age (he was fourteen years old at the time). These grew popular with tweens and teenagers, even receiving press coverage in broadsheet national newspapers (The Manchester Guardian, to name one) and the BBC's arts programmes who reported this as a "youthquake".

1 2007 lineup
- 1.1 Competition
2 2008 lineup
3 Press cuttings and external links

[edit] 2007 lineup

The band XX Teens (formerly Xerox Teens) were in the original lineup, but had to pull out due to album commitments.

[edit] Competition

Artrocker held a competition for five readers aged 14-19 to attend the festival to report for them and feature in their magazine. The winners were announced on 30th July 2007 as follows: